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The question of whether students at Catholic high schools should be cut off from programs that benefit other students is being debated in Vermont and across the nation. (Images: iStock, Wikimedia Commons; Composite: America)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
While the vast majority of Vermont students are eligible for the vouchers, which pay the full cost of up to two college classes, students who attend religious and other private schools are not.
Worshippers hold candles at the beginning of the Easter Vigil at St. Louis de Montfort Church in Sound Beach, N.Y., in April 2017. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
Easter is second only to Christmas in Mass attendance—and in a tight race with Halloween in candy consumption.
 03.05.2018 Pope Francis greets people during an audience with Italian nurses in Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 3. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
According to a new Pew Research Center poll, 84 percent of U.S. Catholics hold a “favorable” view of Pope Francis.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Paul Stinson
The divergence in Texas might be viewed as a microcosm of the national debate over what it means to be pro-life.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
The film "The Florida Project" depicts a new reality: families who live week to week in motels, unable to afford permanent housing.
Mark Gomez, a lay leader of Encuentros Juveniles in the Miami Archdiocese, listens during the Encuentro gathering on Feb. 23 in that city. (CNS photo/Tom Tracy)
FaithDispatches
J.D. Long García
The fifth version of a project started by the U.S. bishops in 1972 goes to the peripheries of the church to welcome back Hispanics.